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Chat-tails: Throwback terminal chat, built on Tailscale

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Re: Chat-tails: Throwback terminal chat, built on Tailscale

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Don't worry, VPNs are next in line to be banned anyway due to their big evasion potential of all this age verification nonsense

ps just as I wrote this the English had to prove my point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294780

Ssh and ssl/tls without licence will be next :)

Re: Chat-tails: Throwback terminal chat, built on Tailscale

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Things like this make me wish there was a sort of public version of Tailscale where everyone got a routable IP address to everyone else no matter what kind of firewall they were behind. Like the old days of the internet, I guess.

I think Tailscale shares is what we currently are supposed to use?

You share some "semi-public" host with all of your friends...

And then you're not necessarily chatting with famous people, but you can have a near-and-dear-social network of people you actually know...

Re: Chat-tails: Throwback terminal chat, built on Tailscale

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ps just as I wrote this the English had to prove my point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294780

Ssh and ssl/tls without licence will be next :)

Personally, I think they will go for the endpoint instead. This is part of the UK proposal now. Only allow "trusted" endpoints to access services, something which is kinda in place in the mobile world already. Many things are blocked if you are running an unsanctioned build of Android.

Then once they have that in place they can just do all the monitoring through the screen of the device itself, since all content has to pass through there.

It's much easier to do that than to try to mandate a backdoor to every service in the world. Of coruse it is even more disastrous to user privacy but I honestly think that's the goal not the bug.

Re: Chat-tails: Throwback terminal chat, built on Tailscale

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Kept trying to build it in a variety of ways. Ultimately its a Dev niche thing which maybe in the hands of tailscale will gain adoption but really struggled otherwise. There's definitely room for private ephemeral conversations but I think that can also be a more public utility. Who knows, maybe it lays the foundation for that.
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